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Yes.
Correct placement of the shot at a sensible distance with a well designed projectile is more important than actual bullet weight.
Due to perverse legislation in another country we were obliged to use .22 CF rifles for shooting Fallow, Sika, Reds and Hybrid Red/Sika for about 20 years.

There is no minimum calibre in Scotland but there are bullet weight, energy and velocity requirements that means for all the big deer you need a little more boof to be legal, roe are 1000 ft-lb from a minimum bullet weight of 50gr achieving a velocity of 2450fps at muzzle....

There is no minimum calibre in Scotland but there are bullet weight, energy and velocity requirements that means for all the big deer you need a little more boof to be legal, roe are 1000 ft-lb from a minimum bullet weight of 50gr achieving a velocity of 2450fps at muzzle....

perfectly simple

+1 perfectly simple. And i like it better not having minimum calibre for roe either. My .222 is the perfect round for the job. If we had the english we would be forced too use .243.

is the english law not the simplest and really should just be rolled out every where?

It has some anomalies too. E.g. we can't shoot Roe with a sensible calibre, they are regarded as large deer. Must be interesting shooting in the borders with e.g. a .222. What happens if a Scottish deer runs and dies on the English side

Likewise an English stalker shoots a red with a barely legal .243 and it expires in Scotland (for lack of the extra 50 fpe, or a heavy enough bullet).

Of course in England we don't want those coarse fox shooting types getting fancy ideas about shooting our beloved Roe with their vermin rifles. But they are welcome to pop off the horrid Muntjac which we don't like (immigrants).

Of course in England we don't want those coarse fox shooting types getting fancy ideas about shooting our beloved Roe with their vermin rifles. But they are welcome to pop off the horrid Muntjac which we don't like (immigrants).

Though the .243 was designed as a vermin rifle?!
if you believe the Forestry Commission deer ARE vermin!!

It has some anomalies too. E.g. we can't shoot Roe with a sensible calibre, they are regarded as large deer. Must be interesting shooting in the borders with e.g. a .222. What happens if a Scottish deer runs and dies on the English side

Likewise an English stalker shoots a red with a barely legal .243 and it expires in Scotland (for lack of the extra 50 fpe, or a heavy enough bullet).

Of course in England we don't want those coarse fox shooting types getting fancy ideas about shooting our beloved Roe with their vermin rifles. But they are welcome to pop off the horrid Muntjac which we don't like (immigrants).

Spot on mate it's a complete mess really isn't it.

Something else that hasn't been considered is that since devolution the Welsh assembly now has the powers to change the legislation in Wales to allow the shooting of roe with .22 centrefires or for that matter to change all the deer legislation in Wales if they so wished. So instead of having three different lots of deer legislation for the various parts of the U.K. you could even have four different sets of legislation. The thought had crossed my mind to petition my AM for a change in the law just to be different.

It's the calibre of the shooter that counts not the calibre of the rifle.